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Facing continued pressure from activists and lawmakers over its shows featuring captive killer whales, SeaWorld is addressing its problems by putting an emphasis on conservation and education.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pointed to the Eisenhower-era program that deported masses of Latino immigrants. But the program was deadly and controversial.

One hundred years after it was written, the poem "In Flanders Fields" is being read in many countries today — particularly in Canada, where its author, Lt. Col. John McCrae, served in the military.

Outlawing more than a dozen cannabinoids — chemicals concocted in labs and sprayed on leaves to create this risky street drug — hasn't stopped the problem. Chemists just make new versions.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Republican political consultant Katie Packer of Burning Glass Consulting, who was Mitt Romney's deputy campaign manager in 2012, about GOP skirmishes over immigration.

A random search has turned up a dwarf planet orbiting roughly 10 billion miles away. The far-off world is tiny, and probably very, very cold.

China's old industrial sector continues to decline. One of the economy's sectors that is doing well is e-commerce. But is its rapid expansion enough to halt the overall slide in China's growth?

The role of police in schools is under new scrutiny after an incident in South Carolina. Linda Wertheimer talks to Don Bridges, vice president of the National Association of School Resource Officers.

Egypt says its already weak tourism industry will take big hits if the crash of a Russian jet there scares off Russian visitors. And one Egyptian talks about trying to make it in the tourism business.

With U.S. air support, they launched a long-awaited offensive on the eastern Iraqi city of Sinjar, to try to retake it from ISIS. Steve Inskeep talks to Michael Gordon of The New York Times.